Nail-transferring device.



PATBNTED MAR. 19 1907.

v H. L. WEAVER.

NAIL TRANSFERRING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.& 1906.

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NAlL-TRANSFERRING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed April 2, 1906. Serial No. 309,281.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD L. WEAVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seymour, in the county of N ew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nail-Transferring .Devices; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection'with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical sectional view of a device for transferring horseshoe-nails from a sorting to a finishing machine constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in device for transferring horseshoe-nails from a sorting-machine to a finishing-machine.

In the common form of sorting-machines the blanks are discharged from the machine point downward, and in the common form of finishing-machines a disk or dial formed with a series of pockets for holding the blanks to be finished is arranged horizontally.

The object of this invention is to provide a chute into which the blanks may fall and which will reverse the blanks, so that when they are delivered to the dial of the finishingmachine they will come down head first, and means at thelower end of the chute for forcing the nails out of the chute into the finishing-machine and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

In illustrating my invention I have not shown the sorting-machine, which may be of any approved form and from which the blanks are discharged point downward, and

arranged dial 2 of a finishing-machine, all of well-known construction, the dial having a series of pockets 3 extending horizontally inward from its edge which rides over a plate 4, on which the blanks are supported and on which they are finished, the head of the blanks projecting outward from the pockets 3. As the blanks are discharged from the sorting-machine they fall into an inclined curved trough 5, which is mounted upon an inclined chute 6, the runway 7 of which, extending beneath the trough, gradually contracts toward its lowerv end, which rests upon a plate 4. At the lower end of the chute is a slot 8 of proper length to allow a horseshoena1l blank to ass through it, and the upper end of this s ot is closed by a latch 9, on

which the point of the blank will rest, this latch being normally held in its closed position by a spring 10. In the plate 4, directly below the slot 8, is a slight notch 11. Arranged above the chute and in line with the lower end of the latch 9 is a vertically-movable finger 12, adapted to be depressed by means of a cam 13.

In operation a blank discharged from the sorting-machine falls into the trough 5 and passing down the trough 5 is deflected upward and point foremost into the runway 7 of the chute 6, the momentum acquired by the blank being sufficient to carry it beyond the lower end of the trough, beneath which it will pass as it slides down by force of gravity through the runway 7, and when it reaches the lower end of the runway the head of the blank enters the notch 11, while the point rests upon the latch 10. Thus 14 represents a blank just entering the trough 5. 15 represents a blank just passing from the trough into the runway point foremost. 16 and 17 re resent blanks passing downward through t e runway 7, and 18 represents a blank ready to be discharged. At apredetermined time and when one of the pockets 3 in the dial 2 is in line with the slot 8 in the chute the finger 12 will be depressed, forcing the point of the blank past the latch 9, which yields and allows the blank to take a horizontal position with the point entering one of the pockets 3, by which the blank will be advanced for finishing operations.

It will be understood that the blanking and finishing machines are timed so that a blank will fall from the blanking-machine and pass down in position to be taken by the dial of the finishing-machine at the proper time. By arranging acurved trough and an inclined chute the blanks are received from the sorting-machine point foremost and delivered in proper position to the finishing-machine. Thus the blanks may be fed from one machine to the other automatically.

I claim- 1. In a nail-transferring device, the combination with a downwardly-inclined runway, a slot at the lower end of said runway, a latch pivoted at the upper end of said slot adapted to swing downward and to partially close the slot when'in a raised position, and

springs for holding the latch in the raised position, substantially as described.

,on said latch will be forced.

said finger downward whereby a nail resting downward 2. In a nail-transferring device, the cointhrough said slot, substantially as described.

bination with a downwardly-inclined runway, a slot at the lower end of said runway, a latch pivoted at the upper end of said slot adapted to swing downward and to partially close the slot when in a raised position, I springs for holding the latch in the raised position, and a vertically-movable finger ar- 1 ranged above the latch, means for forcing 1 In testimony whereof I have signed this specification 1n the presence o'li two subscrib- 111g witnesses:

HAROLD L. VVEAVEIR.

Vitnesses:

FREDERIC C. EARLE, CLARA L. 12121). 

